[GNC] Style Sheets - general questions

[will at theprescotts.com]

Scott,

Like you I have used GnuCash for personal use for years and now am using it for an organization I belong to. I didn't like the appearance of the standard reports. Instead of trying to customize them, I just export the transactions as a csv file and open in Apple's Numbers spreadsheet program. From there it is quick and easy to copy them to some standard spreadsheets that I use in my reports. Because the csv file contains columns with the account names it is very easy to sort them by account and or date. In fact the organize function in Numbers does a good job of breaking them up by account.

Certainly, not the only way to solve the problem, but it is a method that has worked for me.

Will


On 2020 Jun 18, at 06-18 16:53:07, Scott Soderling <ssoderling at shaw.ca> wrote:

Windows 10, GnuCash 3.10 I've been using GnuCash for several years now for
my personal use. I am now a treasurer of a members association at a golf
club, which has used other software to do their accounting. I would like to
transition to using GnuCash.

My questions are around report generation. For my personal use, it hasn't
been that important. However with the club, balance sheets, income
statements, budget reports, etc will now become important, getting the
report into the format I like on the screen, and then to print.

I've been reading through the GC documentation and experimenting. Between
using the options available within individual reports, along with trying
different Style Sheets, I am encouraged that there is potential to tweak
the report formats to my liking.

When I look at the drop down list of Style Sheets, I see the following: CSS
(experimental), Default, Easy, Footer, Head orTail, Technicolor. After
trying them out, I've made the following conclusions (I'm leaving out the
experimental one for now):

*Default Style Sheet *- The entire report is left justified on the screen
and page, Quite basic, limited color, no images. However this is the ONLY
place that the "Table border width" setting actually does something -
border around the entire report along with grid lines around every cell.
This setting does nothing in any of the other Style Sheets that I can see.

*Easy, Footer, and Technicolor Style Sheets* - Report is centered on the
screen and page, more options than Default. Unless I'm missing something,
they are identical.

*Head or Tail Style Sheet* - Similar to the above three sheets, with more
data displayed in either the header or footer area of the report.

Now some questions.....

1. Why are the Easy, Footer and Technicolor style sheets all the same?
2. Why does the "Table border width" setting only work with the Default
Style Sheet? I can see instances where that grid effect would be good with
the other Style Sheets.
3. Why aren't printed multi-page reports formatted for each page? Page
breaks just fall wherever they fall, headings aren't repeated at the top of
each page, no options for displaying page numbers, etc.

I think GnuCash is a great piece of software. I'm just trying to understand
how to get output from it the way I want. Thanks very much for all replies.

Scott
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